Friday, March 23, 2007

The Band Are Not Quite Right....

Psychedelic Music and Surrealismby Tim Ellison

Tim Ellison, of the Music Chamber blog, writes this in his latest entry:

The Master's thesis I wrote on '60s psychedelia is now online. You can read it here. I spent four years working on this project and I think you guys will enjoy it. I don't think it has to be read from beginning to end. Chapter 1 is a long treatise discussing the aesthetic commonalities between Surrealism and some art music from around the same time as the beginning of the Surrealist movement. The remaining five chapters are all on the subject of '60s psychedelia, though, and the relationship of its own aesthetic with Surrealism. There are some technical, musicological parts which, if they are not clear to you, you can just skip. I think you can read it from any point you like.

INTRODUCTION (html)1. THE MUSICAL OBJECT: MUSIC AND SURREALISM - pp. 6-422. SURREALISM AND ROMANTICISM IN PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC - pp. 43-66Psychedelic Music and Surrealism ProperPsychedelic Music and Romanticism: An IntroductionThe “Classical” Music SignifierRomantic LandsEastern MusicSongs of Innocence: Romanticism and the ChildConclusions3. NOSTALGIA AND TERROR: GOTHIC PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC - pp. 67-89Part Two: “Gothic” DissonanceThe Chords Are Going WrongAddendum: They Just Play It Like ThatConclusions4. PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC AND THE PRIMACY OF THE OBJECT, PART I - pp. 90-122The All-of-a-Sudden AllToysThe Land of Lavender and Sky-Blue PinkThe Psychedelic Food ScaleThe Clocks Are All Dead So the Living Is FineNext Week, a Monkey Is Coming to StayConclusions5. PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC AND THE PRIMACY OF THE OBJECT, PART II - pp. 123-158People Are StrangeWorker ArchetypesThe Fool on the Hill and the Enlightened ManFemale ArchetypesThe Poetic ObjectAudio ObjectsCrashes, Bombs, and ExplosionsConclusions6. ALBUMS AND SONGS - pp. 159-181Sgt. Pepper: A Bizarre Collection of CuriosThe Psychedelic Song-ObjectSong StructureConclusionsSuggestions for Future ResearchAPPENDIX (html)Song ChartREFERENCES

Hi Lee. Unsure about a "new link." Tim's own blog looks to have been taken down/disappeared. If that's his wish or doing then I'm going to have to honor that. A Google search yields what seems to be large chunks of it on Blastitude: